Sanity is a cozy lie.

- Susan Sontag

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

  -Franklin D. Roosevelt

The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with a gaze.

-Gustav Adolfo Becquer

The conventional wisdom says madness and sanity can never meet over the wall that divides them. But I cannot see the origins of my madness and my sanity as two parallel stories; they are one story in two dimensions. Madness and sanity are not two different garments; they are the warp and weft of the same fabric.  

-Mary O'Hagan

i know what you are

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

--  C.S. Lewis

Reverie

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

--  Chuck Palahniuk

fruits of organization

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

--  Napoleon Bonaparte

big enough

We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body.

--  Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

--  Lily Tomlin

girldreams

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

--   Aeschylus

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

--  Laurence Shames

marching to pretoria

By the time we got back together our adventure had become an epic. We were entitled to a little exaggeration. Every soldier does. After all if growing up is war, then those friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder in a time when nothing is certain when all life lay ahead and every road led home.

-- The Wonder Years

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

--  Lewis Carroll

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

--  William James

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

--  Mark Twain

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;  

One need not be a house; 

The brain has corridors surpassing  

Material place.”

--  Emily Dickinson

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

--Heraclitus of Ephesus

here i am. here i fucking am.

One of the hardest things for me during hard times is to be with other people while I'm in the midst of having my hard time.  More often than not it helps, but it's never, never not difficult.

Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, belov'd for years

- On the Death of a Cat,
Christina Rossetti 

there is no end

As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!

--  Albert Camus